Reply #20: i don't believe israel is out of control [View All]

i believe they are using the same decision-making mathematics that we used to deter nuclear war during the cold war years (game theory), which mandates that if you assume that your opponent is equally good at making decisions and predicting behavior, then you can only gain the advantage and retain your ability to be unpredictable by making some decisions at random, random decisions will not always appear to make sense because they don't and can't make "common" sense

yeah, this was the theory poked fun of in "doctor strangelove" but nonethelesss i don't quite see how israel can survive if it doesn't seem to over-react from time to time or to react unpredictably from time to time, they can't just sit there and let themselves get bowled over by the constant kidnappers and suiciders

there are literally dozens of muslim nations, there is only one jewish nation, in the one spot in a miserable desert that doesn't happen to have any oil -- and they are not to have even that? i just don't see how this small nation can do else other than over-react from time to time, if they don't, they don't have much of a life expectancy as a nation